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In:A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 3: Cross-Cultural Studies
Edited by A. James Arnold
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XII] 1997
► pp. v–xi

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Published online: 15 August 1997
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Table of contents

Charting the Caribbean as a Literary Regionxii
Preliminary Approaches
Mapping the Caribbean: Cartography and the Cannibalization of Culture3
Islands, Enclaves, Continua: Notes Toward a Comparative History of Caribbean Creole Literatures29
The Cross-Cultural Unity of Caribbean Literature: Toward a Centripetal Vision57
Literary Creoleness and Chaos Theory
Chaos and Rhizome: Introduction to a Caribbean Poetics79
Resistance and Globalization in Caribbean Discourse: Antonio Benítez-Rojo and Edouard Glissant87
Problematics of Literary Historiography
A Comparative Analysis of Caribbean Literary Magazines: 1960–1980119
History is Bunk! Recovering the Meaning of Independence in Venezuela, Colombia, and Curaçao: A Cross-Cultural Image of Manuel Piar161
Literature and Popular Culture
Oral Tradition and New Literary Canon in Caribbean Poetry177
When the Popular Sings the Self: Heterology, Popular Songs, and Caribbean Writing187
Carnival and Carnivalization
Caribbean Culture: A Carnivalesque Approach203
Writers Playin' Mas': Carnival and the Grotesque in the Contemporary Caribbean Novel215
Gender and Identity
New World Seductions and Old World Seducers: When Columbus Met Don Juan239
Closure and Disclosure of the Caribbean Body: Gabriel García Márquez and Derek Walcott251
Anglophone and Francophone Fiction by Caribbean Women: Redefining ”Female Identity“267
The Caliban Complex
The Cult of Caliban: Collaboration and Revisionism in Contemporary Caribbean Narrative285
(Post) Modernity and Caribbean Discourse303
Genre and Postcoloniality
From Prince to Lorde: The Politics of Location in Caribbean Autobiography325
Caribbean Sublime: On Transport339
Cross-Cultural Currents and Conundrums
D. H. Lawrence and Alejo Carpentier: The Politics of Religion351
Caribbean Negritude and Africa: Aspects of Black Dilemma357
Republican Code, Working Conditions, and Cross-Cultural Hybridity in the Literature of Suriname and Cuba375
Index to Names393
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